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Ksenia Anske

Οκτ 2014 · Ksenia Anske

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"My mama became a catfish when I was two, on the day I stopped talking."

Neglected since birth by her mother, Irina Myshko hasn’t spoken a word for most of her short Soviet life. Outcast as a mute idiot and abused by her mother's boyfriends, she escapes into an alternate reality where true natures show and people are revealed as the beasts they are. Pregnant, homeless, and penniless, Irina has to make a choice — learn to live in this splintered world or descend into madness.

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Such a gripping tale from the very beginning to the very end. I could have read this cover to cover had my life been less hectic these days. Having loosely followed Ksenia's own life story from her blog, twitter and interviews, this book becomes all the more personal, and horrifying, yet utterly rewarding. With many passages being left open to interpretation, this story blends magically the grim reality with an equally harsh fantasy world, and balances between desperation and a new found hope until its equally heartbreaking and liberating climax.

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Ksenia was born in Moscow, Russia, and came to US in 1998 not knowing English, having studied architecture and not dreaming that one day she'd be writing. She lives in Seattle with her boyfriend and their combined three kids in a house that they like to call The Loony Bin.